Country size comparison

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Northern Mariana Islands is about 998 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Northern Mariana Islands is approximately 464 sq km, making Northern Mariana Islands 0.1% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (9.5 million fewer people live in Northern Mariana Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Northern Mariana Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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